Body temperature measurement is an important aspect of the assessment of neutropenic patients because temperature alterations may indicate critical changes in health status. Monitoring temperature in the traditional fashion is often disruptive to sleep, which is essential to physical and psychological recovery. The purpose of this pilot study is to determine if skin temperature devices are accurate and can be used to monitor trends in body temperature in adult neutropenic patients. Oral and skin temperatures will be simultaneously measured in 25 neutropenic patients every 4 hours for 24 hours. Analysis of variance, chi- square, and t-tests will be used to test hypotheses. To date, 13 subjects have been accrued for this study.
